Mind you, that's also a bad thing about Wikipedia. The ability for anyone to edit an entry means that it can easily degenerate into a collection of viewpoints, "common knowledge" and "blatantly obvious" factoids, rather than properly-reviewed facts.

Of course, some commercially available encyclopedias are little better.

...my suggestion is that we get Neil to do his magic and give a more indepth look at Alt...

It certainly doesn't need my longwinded explanation in the mix. Also, for an encyclopedia entry, it already has all the relevant information you'd expect. It's kind of nice to see that someone took the time to put that out there, too.